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October 18, 2002Every month a few days before the full moon retreat the monks shut down their regular duites and have an "ashram sadhana day." When we all get into our work cloths and clean and scrub and take care of neglected areas. It is always fun and uplifting, working together as...
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October 17, 2002It's a quiet day at Kauai Aadheenam... tropical rains fell in torrents... much needed as it has been a bit dry of late. Gurudeva writes in Living with Siva: "Many people are afraid to do puja, specific, traditional rites of worship, because they feel they don't have enough training or...
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October 16, 2002"Siva is the God of love and nothing else but love. He fills this universe with love. He fills you with love. Siva is fire. Siva is earth. Siva is air. Siva is water. Siva is ether. Siva's cosmic energy permeates everything and gives light and life to your mind....
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October 15, 2002Happy Satguru Jayanti! For Gurudeva's successor, Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami has turned 60 years of age today. He requested that no special pujas or ceremonies be performed, but all the monks had to still give him a party tonight! (pictures tomorrow) and felicitations are coming in from members around the world...
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October 14, 2002Gurudeva sitting with some of his monks in the publications office last year. Ever open, ever loving, ever ready to strike up a conversation, one couldn't have asked for a more perfect example of how best to live life, for a more remarkable spiritual preceptor! How blessed we all are...
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October 11, 2002"Those of you who are wrestling with the mind in your many endeavors to try to concentrate the mind, to try to meditate, to try to become quiet, to try to relax, keep trying. Every positive effort that you make is not in vain. Every single brick added to a...
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October 10, 2002Gurudeva does abhishekam over the Iraivan foundation. "As we look at this great line of satgurus--coming from Lord Siva Himself through Nandinatha and countless ones before Nandinatha, to Rishi Tirumular and countless rishis after him to the Rishi of Bangalore, to Kadaitswami, Chellappaguru and Yogaswami--we see the same spiritual force...
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September 28, 2002"I appreciate you, our reader of Living with Siva, you and other men and women, boys and girls who are strengthening Hinduism in hundreds of remote communities, upholding the Sanatana Dharma, being a beacon light to others on the path. It is you who are inspiring us to produce this...